Word: checkpoints
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...Tatiana was comparatively lucky. One night two minders were driving her to a neighboring town when they passed through a checkpoint manned by Russian peacekeepers, who spotted her in the back seat and handed her over to an international aid agency. Most women like her never get that chance. An estimated 200,000 to 300,000 are shipped out of the former communist countries of Eastern Europe and the old Soviet Union into Western Europe and North America each year, most of them to work in brothels and nightclubs against their will, according to the International Organization for Migration...
...fear, uncertainty, anger and frustration. Every Palestinian is not out in the street, head wrapped in a kafeeyah, throwing stones at Israeli soldiers. But Palestinians do live with constant uncertainty as to whether the Israelis will arbitrarily alter their lives. I live right on top of an Israeli checkpoint on the line between East and West Jerusalem and each night I watch the police detain every Palestinian car that passes. Sometimes, the Palestinians are waived through after a quick paper check; other times they are detained at length. On one occasion I watched three Israeli soldiers threaten to beat...
Each Palestinian who approaches this checkpoint has no idea how the police and solders will treat him, but he does know that he has little recourse if he is mistreated. I know a Palestinian who was harassed at a checkpoint until he lost his temper; for his verbal barrage, he received a series of vague fines that destroyed the better part of his income for the week. I have met Palestinians who traveled for hours and took huge risks to circumvent the Israeli closure of the West Bank so they might earn enough money to provide their children with food...
...police headquarters, where plans are afoot to place nearly 5,000 officers in and around the inaugural parade route. The Secret Service has been placed in charge of security arrangements, which signals a heightened seriousness about rules and regulations; parade-goers will be required to pass through a security checkpoint and have their bags checked. Protesters already up in arms over newly erected barriers surrounding inaugural sites are newly frustrated by the small spaces around the city in which they will be allowed to gather. Police have designated three spots near the parade route where protests are permitted: McPherson Square...
...addition, the Justice Department and the Florida attorney general's office launched an investigation into a "safety checkpoint" set-up by four free-lancing state troopers on the way to Woodville Baptist Church, a predominantly minority polling place...